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EB-1A awards — AAO decision FEB192013_02B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: The AAO Appeal dismissed Judging and original contributions fail; authorship fails the plural-articles requirement; awards, published material, display, leading/critical role, and high salary are abandoned. The three-criterion threshold is not met; no final-merits determination.
Source reviewed: This page summarizes the specific AAO source and posture recorded in the completed source-review tracker. It does not turn a nonprecedent decision into a general rule.
Scope classification from review: The source identifies an EB-1A extraordinary-ability Form I-140 petition under INA section 203(b)(1)(A).. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | FEB192013_02B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | 2013-02-19 |
Classification / field stated in source | EB-1A petition; physician/researcher |
Procedural posture | Appeal from denial; AAO dismisses. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed |
Final-merits status | AAO states the petitioner failed the three-types-of-evidence threshold and that a final-merits determination is therefore not undertaken. |
What the AAO decision addressed
Judging and original contributions fail; authorship fails the plural-articles requirement; awards, published material, display, leading/critical role, and high salary are abandoned. The three-criterion threshold is not met; no final-merits determination.
Criterion-by-criterion status in this source
These labels reproduce the source-review record. “Not considered,” “not reached,” and “not coded” do not mean the criterion failed. A Director finding recited as background is not an AAO holding unless the decision says so.
Criterion | Source-review status |
|---|---|
Awards | abandoned — p. 4 |
Membership | Not considered — source PDF |
Published material about the person | abandoned — p. 4 |
Judging the work of others | |
Original contributions of major significance | |
Scholarly authorship | Not met — p. 7 |
Artistic display or showcases | abandoned — p. 7 |
Leading or critical role | abandoned — p. 7 |
High salary or remuneration | abandoned — p. 7 |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not considered — source PDF |
Source-cited findings recorded in review
claim: The petitioner filed in 2011 and claims extraordinary ability in a medical field; AAO reviews asserted judging, contribution, authorship, and other criteria.; pages: 2; 3; 4
claim: AAO finds no evidence of formal judging of others’ work; workplace evaluations do not establish service as a judge.; pages: 4; 5
claim: AAO does not accept the contribution claim as established at filing; the asserted citation count included later evidence, and AAO assesses the pre-filing evidence.; pages: 5; 6
claim: One qualifying article plus a response and presentations does not satisfy the scholarly-authorship criterion’s plural requirement; several other claims were abandoned.; pages: 7
claim: AAO dismisses for failure to satisfy three criteria, expressly distinguishing that threshold from final merits.; pages: 8
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How to use this record
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